– You’ve all been really enjoying these monthly writing challenges, so I decided to do a small series of prompt lists for developing your longer stories. This month is character development, and the next month will be plot development and worldbuilding. I look forward to seeing all of your guys’ responses here using the hashtag #wordsnstuffcharacterdevelopment and over on Instagram, where you can tag me @ writingandsuch.
Days 1-10: Motivation & Behaviour
What does your character think they want?
What does your character actually want?
What does your character need?
What are your character’s recurring feelings?
If you had to write 10 rules or beliefs your characters follow, what would they be?
Write a scene in which your character’s past affects their current actions.
What are your characters fears and where do they stem from?
What is your character’s biggest secret? Why do they keep it?
Where does your character stand on the alignment scale?
What does your character have to lose?
Days 11-20: Physical/Personality Traits and Relationships
What are your character’s strengths?
What are your character’s weaknesses?
Find a face claim for your character and identify the differences.
What is your character’s ethnic background?
Write a short blurb of your character interaction with each other character.
List and explain your character’s positive traits.
List and explain your character’s negative traits.
Describe your character’s sense of style.
What are your character’s flaws?
Describe your character from the point of view of someone who hates them.
Days 21-30: Role, Impact, and Evolution
What role does your character play in the progression of the plot?
How could a reader relate to your character?
How does your character’s past affect people’s view of them?
To what extent does your character help the conflict resolve?
To what extent does your character worsen the conflict?
What are the major struggles your character is facing?
Describe your character in beginning vs. the end of the story?
What events play the largest part in changing your character?
How do you want your reader to remember the character?
What is the character’s overall impact on other characters and the story overall?
Bonus Challenge (Day 31)
Describe your character’s backstory, “once upon a time” style
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MY CURRENT WORK IN PROGRESS (Check it out, it’s pretty cool. At least I think it is.)
I read this in her voice skksksksk
FUCK everyone else, i respect YOU!
more rayllum screencaps bc they are precious beans
Everyone, and I mean everyone who reblogs this before Nov. 5 will get a doodle based off of their blog URL
I’ve seen a lot of these and I want to try it for myself!!
what are your favorite soft crush/love songs ?
i have soo many but i am all for the softness
let’s get married, mitski cover
i was made for loving you by tori kelly
from the ground up by sleeping at last
i’m with you by vance joy
the few things by jp saxe
grow as we go by ben platt
carry you by novo armor
i’ll keep you safe by sleeping at last
loved you before by natalie taylor
livewire by oh wonder
you are in love by taylor swift
you matter to me by sara barielles / jessie mueller
can’t fight this feeling anymore, bastille cover
you are the reason by calum scott
make you feel my love, sleeping at last cover
guess which frame I gave up on
I have some hours before work so I’ll use them to actually detail why I’ve found CSPaint to be so efficient for bastard-aligned painters who like to take shortcuts.
This will seem familiar to most of you guys, but this functions a little bit different from Photoshop. It turns everything you draw on the layer into editable curves, but retains the aliased smoothness of an ordinary raster layer. Practically a cheat to access the whole suite of amazing tools CS offers for lineart. Such as:
The vector eraser is The Best™. You can be as messy as possible and this tool erases the excess. One pen-flick and it’s done. Much faster than cleaning it up by hand. You can also tweak the settings of this brush to encapsulate more/less lines as you erase but that’s getting a little more involved. Anyway, last thing:
Maybe the only thing better than the vector eraser. There are multiple settings, but these three are the most handy. You can smooth wiggly edges, connect broken strokes, and tweak the width/weight to exactly how you want it. This also has a ton of settings you can play around with. It’s great!
There’s a lot more tools you can use, but you get the point! It’s a really good drawing program. I recommend it!
THE RANDOM DRAWING IDEA GENERATOR 3.0! Now with less than a one in five thousand chance to get Batman Being Batman!
This time around, it’s got it’s own little mini site where you can click and get your results! It should be even easier now to mulligan until you get a result that actually makes you NEED to draw it. And when you do draw it, please remember to share you creation with the tag #randraw. I’d love to see it!
All thanks go to Alexander Lozada for putting the code together. It’s been really swell working it out. And you should go check out their other projects, including the awesome Creativity Cards you might’ve seen going around.
This is the best, but certainly not the last you’ll see of the Random Drawing Generator. There are over 5000 possible results, and many prompts are infinite by design. But there’s still room to grow. As always, I’ll be polling for ideas on what else to include. So, guys, what’ve you got?
attacka you with a branch
this is posted July 2, 2019!
Hello, I just discovered that Gofundme does not work in the country I live in! More coherent post now that I’ve calmed down.
Hello! My name is Caleb and I am a trans guy of color who loves folklore, storytelling and drawing! I am raising money for my dad’s surgery + us getting back on our feet. He is 56 years old and his surgery is to remove kidney stones that are causing him significant pain + is life threatening . My dad is a funny and incredible guy, He loves cats and singing and he had sacrificed everything for my mom, my sister and I. Both him and my mom are diabetic and disabled, as when I was 9 years old, my mom had suffered a sudden sepsis attack, which had caused her to go brain dead for a few minutes, before being revived and fall in a coma for 3 months. When my mother woke up from her coma, she was paralyzed, even her vocal cords were paralyzed!! Ever since then it was just me and my dad who took care of our family, and then, when I graduated college, it was just me as dad got sick as well. I am only in my very early twenties and the sole caretaker of my family, my two disabled parents, my sister who is a minor, and our cats and dog. My dad’s surgery was estimated to be 120 thousand pesos- 200 thousand pesos, which is 2,345.88 US dollars at least, and 3,909.80 US dollars at most.
I have a job, I just need a little bit of help.
1 US dollar = 50 Ph Pesos We live in the Philippines, and my dad is taking an ultrasound tomorrow to see just what they can do about it. I will try to update as much as I can. Anything extra will go to my mom’s diapers, toiletries, etc, my dad’s maintenance medicine, and my sister’s lunch money for school. Thank you and sorry for my english;
(I used to have a youcaring for this, but as youcaring merged with gofundme, I believe that all the existing pages have been deleted. I have gathered about 30 thousand pesos on youcaring, and about 25 thousand pesos + today. I cannot thank you all enough) Thank you so so much for taking the time to read this, and I hope you are all well.
I will update as much as I can!
https://www.paypal.me/calebhosalla
here is my ko-fi!!
https://ko-fi.com/A2619OE